28 research outputs found
Gender and European Integration
The paper assesses the contribution of gender approaches to understanding Europeanintegration. It offers a conceptualization of such approaches as including a distinctontology, epistemology and methodology. While feminist literature on the EuropeanUnion is diverse, all such literature sheds light on the gendered process of Europeanintegration. The authors identify two distinct contributions of this literature: (a) itillustrates the relevance of movement actors and other advocates in shaping EU policies;(b) it shows that economic integration entails the creation of new gender regimes. Thepaper illustrates these contentions presenting case studies of the EUâs response to sextrafficking, the reform of the common agricultural policy, and of enlargement.
Be Free? The European Union's post-Arab Spring Women's Empowerment as Neoliberal Governmentality
This article analyses post-Arab Spring EU initiatives to promote women's empowerment in the Southern Mediterranean region. Inspired by Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, it investigates empowerment as a technology of biopolitics that is central to the European neoliberal model of governance. In contrast to dominant images such as normative power Europe that present the EU as a norm-guided actor promoting political liberation, the article argues that the EU deploys a concept of functional freedom meant to facilitate its vision of economic development. As a consequence, the alleged empowerment of women based on the self-optimisation of individuals and the statistical control of the female population is a form of bio-power. In this regard, empowerment works as a governmental technology of power instead of offering a measure to foster fundamental structural change in Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) societies. The EU therefore fails in presenting and promoting an alternative normative political vision distinct from the incorporation of women into the hierarchy of the existing market society
Les apports féministes aux relations internationales
Le champ dâĂ©tude des relations internationales (RI) fĂ©ministes a-t-il quelque chose Ă dire sur le dĂ©veloppement ? Il y a vingt ans, la question aurait Ă©tĂ© purement rhĂ©torique : les fĂ©ministes qui travaillaient dans le domaine des RI Ă©taient profondĂ©ment influencĂ©es par la littĂ©rature portant sur le thĂšme genre et dĂ©veloppement, Ă laquelle elles ont Ă©galement contribuĂ©. Mais quand la politique internationale sâest militarisĂ©e au dĂ©but de ce siĂšcle, elles ont rĂ©orientĂ© leurs recherches vers lâĂ©..
A Discussion of Laura sjoberg's Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War
A Discussion of Sidney Tarrowâs War, States, and Contention: A Comparative Historical Study
Gender experts in international governance: Mapping the contours of a field
Twenty years of gender mainstreaming in international organisations (IOs) has produced an international network of gender experts and a distinctive body of expertise on gender relations. Gender experts have led the development of policies, built capacity through training, designed and implemented projects, pioneered new administrative techniques (such as gender budgeting), spearheaded innovative research, and evaluated interventions geared towards advancing gender equality and womenâs empower..